The Australian Haiku Society welcomes contributions from haiku poets worldwide to the Winter Solstice Haiku String.
We will be holding this Haiku String during the day of the Southern Hemisphere Winter Solstice, occurring in Australia this year on Tuesday, 21st June, 2022. The String will remain open for contributions until Tuesday 28th June to accommodate international poets who may wish to take part.
The string has now closed. Thanks to all the poets who shared their haiku. We are pleased to have contributions from many countries. While comments on haiku are welcomed while the string is open, comments that are not haiku have now been removed to make it easier for readers.
Haiku String – Instructions
The AHS invites you to share with us your original, previously unpublished haiku or senryu on the theme of Climate Change. We invite you to explore a multiplicity of ideas in the String without necessarily using the term climate change, though you may if you wish.
The haiku will be linked by subject and theme, it is not necessary for each haiku to relate to the one before it.
1.Please contribute up to three of your best previously unpublished haiku or senryu.
2.Haiku should be posted in the comment box at the end of the post.
3.Each poem posted must be original work by the poet making the post. Please include your name below as you wish it to appear.
Posting your work in the AHS Winter Solstice String 2022 assumes the following:
Copyright of each haiku remains with the author. We request nonexclusive permission to publish your work on the AHS website and to republish it online at any future time.
earth warming —
a faded rainbow lines
the ocean floor
Rob Scott
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wearing a t-shirt in winter
outdoors
tulip bulbs protrude early
postman and I are
having a drink
two green finches in bird bath
watering the garden
winter
Storage dams are low
backyard tomatoes
cooking slowly
on the vine
around our heads
the mozzies whine
too long summer days
after
the climate change debate
friends split
Lynette Arden (Australia)
Posted on behalf of Quendryth Young
river mouth
bits of the inland
washed into the sea
hanging out
the summer mould …
winter sun
heat here
snow there
upside down
Quendryth Young
through bare branches
a red rising sun
winter solstice
morning mist
the homeless man
accepts hot coffee from a stranger
coconut ice sky
the chill of winter
weeks without rain
nothing showing
but the cracks…
riverbed cracks
praying to
the rain gods
the mass bleaching
of coral reefs . . .
mother’s bony hands
Debbie Strange, Canada
Happy Solstice to all!
homecoming –
the road winds on the place
of the old riverbed
.
dry winter –
someone recites the ballad
„Où sont les neiges d’antan?”
.
summer sea –
carried by the waves
dead fishes
.
Mirela Brăilean
România
heat-wave…
asking Alexa to play
birdsong
Neena Singh
India
sinking Sunderbans—
what is a tiger
a child asks
.
crocodiles eat
the last mangrove
—the taste of salt
.
where o where
have all the sparrows gone
—loud silence